Happy belated Canada day, and Fourth of July weekend everyone. Hopefully everyone was able to stay relatively cool, considering both sides of North America were borderline cooked.
Taking inspiration from that, I went looking for something that would be hydrating, as well as boozy. Luckily, I had some mint that needed using, along with a can of pineapple juice, so I figured why not combine and add gin. How could this possibly be bad?
2 oz. Gin
1 oz. Pineapple juice
3 mint
3(ish) cubes of sliced watermelon
Add the mint and watermelon to a cocktail shaker and muddle. Add the gin, pineapple juice, and ice. Shake and fine strain into a chilled rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with another mint leaf.
The nose has a very pleasant watermelon aroma, with a hint of mint from the garnish. No strong alcohol notes either.
Despite the lack of gin smell, the gin is the first flavor that really comes through here. It’s strong, but not oppressively so. After a few seconds, the watermelon starts to come through. The watermelon plays really well here. It adds lightness (thanks to the fact that watermelon is 92% water) as well as a lot of flavor. The pineapple juice comes in about midway through the sip. The two fruit juices mix very well with the overall flavor profile. The mint however does get lost. I used about 3 leaves of fresh mint plus the garnish, so I would most definitely add more the next time I make this.
Another post mixing modification I did was add an unmeasured splash of soda water topper to the glass. While it was quite delicious without, I think the carbonation really brightens it up. It also has the added benefit of softening the alcohol feel, which means you can drink way more of these than you probably should, which makes it dangerously delicious, and perfect for these record setting heat days
This looks dangerously quaffable
And Perú moves on to face Brasil.
Yes, Brasil faces Chile in an hour. I stand by my statement.
Two Paraguayan PKs in a row had way too much Asuncion.
That was a crazy shootout!
Bananacakes continue in the Copa. Both Perú and Paraguay are down to 10 men and Paraguay just scored in the 90th minute to make it 3-3.
No extra time!! They’re going straight into penalties!
These Italians are wasting more time than I did during my last week at work.
Belgium’s last few minutes of the game are sponsored by the good folks at Foreigner-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcb-Fsx_phM&ab_channel=RHINO
Not Europe?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiTxUEnmKI
“Oh, that reminds me…”
[pulls string]
[waiter appears bearing a ham]
– Andy Reid
I see that Verate is on the field, but what about Klaatu and Nicto?
You are a nerd for making that joke and I am a nerd for finding it hilarious
Is it less nerdy if I was actually referring to Army of Darkness?
I don’t think so
How about now?
?w=535
Here we are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBV5hofD_U&ab_channel=KlaatuKonnection
Credit to the defender there, nice work.
yeah, I’m pulling for Waffles, but the Spicy Meatballs have defended heroically.
I prefer to refer to them as the Phlegms, in honor of the pythons.
https://vimeo.com/99663693
“Let’s not call them anything, let’s ignore them.”
Romeo with the boner. Figures.
“Can Belgium do it doggy-style? Get it? Come from behind?”
-Balls, footy announcer
I love that the original still is from Justified.
Just a brilliant show. I wonder what you get if you dial that phone number on the side of the van?
Herpes. Or rabies. Possibly both.
So, Canada announces it will phase out the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035. Very Captain Planet of them. Now if only they’d stop trying to pipe their oil and tar sands to ship from New Orleans over Native American lands through shoddily constructed and shittily maintained pipelines.
https://jalopnik.com/canada-becomes-latest-country-to-ban-sale-of-gas-vehicl-1847203646
You didn’t hear?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/energy/keystone-pipeline-canceled/index.html
Yeah. For now. I’m sure Trump will re-authorize it as soon as he magically re-ascends the throne later this year (I understand it’s NOT August, now…).
Damnit, why did I step away from this game to eat delicious Vietnamese noodles?
To eat delicious Vietnamese noodles.
The answer’s right there.
Vietnamese noodles with peaches?
Peach smoothies with peach flavored broth for his peach noodles.
I assume the noodles were in a different location than the game, if they were in the same location then it was just silly to step away
I could have put the game on, but that would have been disrespectful to the person who prepared the noodles (the Dr. Mrs.).
Italy is a fine-looking squadoo though-if they mayhap run into The Anglaise in the final it should be a cakewalk.
Just heard a very loud MA VAFFANCULO!
Soooo, one of the voices in your head is Italian?
I went to a match at San Siro years ago to watch Milan AC host Roma. All the Roma fans were segregated in a separate seating area. Cops in riot gear were present. No alcohol was served in the stadium. The Milan AC fans were very coordinated in their cheers, and I heard the phrase “Va Fanculo Roma” sung quite frequently throughout the match. Or maybe they were hollering “Roma Va Fanculo,” my knowledge of Italian grammar and sentence structure is nonexistent.
shume emocionuese!
Romeo with the breath of fresh air.
A pushy Italian guy? Well I never.
SUDDEN CHANGE AND COUNTERCHANGE
As a bartender I preferred counterbills over counterchange when a patron left.
I haven’t seen the Belgians get run through this badly since the Schlieffen Plan
Game over, in Albanian
So everyone there is totally white with pink eyes?
Except some of the players on the field.
-Ggregg’s lessor footy equivalent
In Albanian slang, “Enver Hoxha is at your front door.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0
Italians playing with a ton of tetrazzini today.
Oh fuck off!
Fun fact: Mussolini’s air force operated out of airfields in axis-occupied Belgium during the Battle of Britain.
“Mussolini brought Italy into the war in June 1940. Convinced of an Axis victory and not wishing to miss out on the spoils of war he ordered the Italian Air Force – Regia Aeronautica – to form an air expeditionary force, the Corpo Aereo Italiano/Italian Air Corps (CAI) – composed of three Stormi- Wings- some 200 aircraft – to operate against the United Kingdom in support of an unenthusiastic Luftwaffe from bases at Melsbroek, Chievres, Maldeghem and Ursel in Belgium.”
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/history-of-the-battle-of-britain/corpo-aero-italiano/
I feel like Andy Murray’s strategy of falling behind 5-1 in every set is going to come back to bite him.
I have the choice of commentary in Macedonian or Albanian. Going with Albanian since the guy seems way more enthusiastic
If only this was the Switzerland-Spain game…
Sleeper?
That goal was miraculous, in that the dead Italian in the box, (make your own jokes), was instantly revived.
He got up pretty quickly to celebrate, didn’t he?
“Ok, let’s-a try that-a Sleeping With The A-Fishes play”
“It’s a miracle!”
Trevor Bauer’s version of rough sex is flying a drone into a hooker’s ass with his eyes closed.
“You see, if you drug them first….” — B. Cosby
fuck, Ukraine is the last not-that-big-an-asshole left. And they’re mostly ded already.
GREASEGOAL!
Trevor Bauer’s spin rate has gone down but strangely another RPM has gone through the roof in the last couple of days.
First time in a while we’ve seen both sides on the front foot from the jump.
Just checked into the Skopje Marriott, which is incredibly nice. The city itself looks excellent from the short walk I had from the bus stop to here. Goddamn it feels good to be somewhere random again! Lots of open air bar/cafes showing the games, and it is nighttime here, Friday night even, a traditional time for communal sports viewing. First impressions are that the city monuments have Soviet scale, but a more neoclassical style. I’m totally into giant horse statues with fountains on a tiled square next to a porticoed casino.
Very cool!
I never thought they would publish Werner Herzog’s memoirs.
*drags horsehead full of eels out of the canal, vomits profusely*Edit: Wrong crazy director.
I’m totally into giant horse statues
Enjoy your trip, Catherine the Great!
Jealous of your travels!
We leave our recluse hovels vicariously through thee, Good Doktor.
Sounds awesome. Hope you have a blast; keep updating us so I can live a little vicariously (not in a creepy way) through your adventures. Damn, I miss having a regular life.
Donnaruma seems like he’s taking the Sommer challenge.
The Belgians counter attack looking spicy.
Hopefully they don’t go a bridge too far
Trevor Bauer uses Spider Tack for not only better grip on the baseball but in the bedroom as well.
I look forward to angry, drunken Fozz swinging by the Clubhouse at the half, demanding we nerds explain the offside rule.
Ooh, I think this could be VAR’d
Ask and ye shall receive.
Wholly crap, my feed is way ahead of yours.
That’s the Canadian advantage!
Dirty Italians.
Spicy Meatballs! Waffles!! WHO YA GOT??
Mmmmm takeout
Waffles!
I put me moneys there, because the odds so dictated
The Broom isn’t dragging his leg behind him, so that’s a good sign.
took off his “cone” collar too.
Is Chiellini 45? ‘Cause he looks older than that.
He’s a Mussolini bust with legs and elbows.
If you yell your national anthem it makes it better.
Except ours, because it sucks.
/looks up symptoms for Anthem Envy
Italy’s anthem is so jaunty.
Like it’s gonna offer you wine then fuck your lady.
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0&list=PLSql30trHI0SWfcf4wmE958HG6SZ9j9h-&index=1
Sorry, I meant this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0W7j04iRQ&list=PLSql30trHI0SWfcf4wmE958HG6SZ9j9h-&index=2
You mean this:
https://youtu.be/OnFlx2Lnr9Q
Should be.
After 4 days of heat well into the 90’s, (100 if you believe my backyard thermometer that you all hated) (makes list), it is mid-60’s and pouring here.
Hopefully that same weather break goes to the Pacific NW soon.
Right. So I’ve got 10 minutes to grab food before the next game starts.
There’s your cardio right there.
Debating going to the gym and watching the game on an elliptical, but I’d probably continue binging Bojack Horseman on it instead. Best to stay put for a while.
/Inertia sits smugly in the corner, having won again.
The Fightin’ Francos live on! As opposed to their Generalissimo, who is still dead.
In the end, the Swiss couldn’t bank on their shooting ability.
This Spanish team just had an armada of goal scorers.
Still saving a boatload of armada jokes for Spain’s inevitable defeat.
Sommer was no goldbricker!